There is a lobby in Ankara, let’s call it the Eurasian Lobby, in which a group of people with access to President Tayyip Erdoğan have been pressing to bring back the death penalty to Turkey since the bloody coup attempt of July 15 – something the Hürriyet Daily News wrote about on Dec. 8
The death toll of the Dec. 10 Istanbul bomb attacks had risen to 44 by the late afternoon of Dec. 12, while many injured were still being kept in the intensive care units of hospitals.
Another act of terror hit Istanbul on Dec. 10, the officially designated U.N. Human Rights Day. Some 38 people, including 30 being police officers, were killed and 160 people were injured.
Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in Syria are about to gain control of the country’s second city of Aleppo as rebel groups seek ways to exit their last positions
Reinstating the death penalty was imposed on the political agenda by the Turkish leadership after the bloody coup attempt of July 15
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Dec. 6 said the situation in Aleppo case was a “disgrace” for the West
Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher, has been accused of masterminding the bloody July 15 military coup attempt in Turkey not only by the government but also by all opposition parties and prosecutors
A day before the inauguration of a new museum-library bearing his name on Dec. 4, in his Central Anatolian hometown of Kayseri, former Turkish President Abdullah Gül gave an interesting interview to CNN Türk
Donald Trump is likely to become the most unusual U.S. president after he takes office on Jan. 20, 2017. The picks he has so far made for his administration have already started to give an idea about the shape his term will take
